In response to a reported wave of cybertattacks, the United States and China will be holding talks on how the two countries can create new rules for regulating the internet. The talks will be ongoing and are set to start in July.

The United States and China have agreed to hold regular, high-level talks on how to set standards of behavior for cybersecurity and commercial espionage, the first diplomatic effort to defuse the tensions over what the United States says is a daily barrage of computer break-ins and theft of corporate and government secrets.

The talks will begin in July. Next Friday, President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China, who took office this spring, are scheduled to hold an unusual, informal summit meeting in Rancho Mirage, Calif., that could set the tone for their relationship and help them confront chronic tensions like the nuclear threat from North Korea.

The head of the United States Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, has said the attacks have resulted in the “greatest transfer of wealth in history.” Hackers have stolen a variety of secrets, including negotiating strategies and schematics for next-generation fighter jets and gas pipeline control systems.

U.S. officials assert that People’s Liberation Army, Unit 61398 is behind many of the cyberattacks occurring in America.

If the talks are successful the norms created for cybersecurity may end the internet as we know it. While SOPA was beaten back, attempts to find ways around the current open web have continued with CISPA and, pending these negotiations, more restrictions on open access to information may be forthcoming. The future of the open internet hangs in the balance.

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Control the internet? I assume they would have wanted control of Gutenberg’s Press also. Given the desire to control information by corporations and the governments they control, this is no surprise.

Sure! I can see why the US and China would not want Americans to know that Exxon Mobile and China are doing, now reaping the benefits of Iraqi Oil, while America paid the blood and guts, to secure access to the Al Anbar’s sweet crude.

Makes perfect sense how “international corporate fascists,” irrespective of political ideology “kow tow” to the alter of Mammon paying homage to his appendage, in return for money.

Planet is in need of a biblical type flood. Guess we still breathing thinking Americans are the fucking problem? Aye?

China already buys nearly half the oil that Iraq produces, nearly 1.5 million barrels a day, and is angling for an even bigger share, bidding for a stake now owned by Exxon Mobil in one of Iraq’s largest oil fields.

“The Chinese are the biggest beneficiary of this post-Saddam oil boom in Iraq,” said Denise Natali, a Middle East expert at the National Defense University in Washington. “They need energy, and they want to get into the market.”

If the talks are successful the norms created for cybersecurity may end the internet as we know it. While SOPA was beaten back, attempts to find ways around the current open web have continued with CISPA and, pending these negotiations, more restrictions on open access to information may be forthcoming. The future of the open internet hangs in the balance.

Rather puts the lie to all the Anti-Bush, War for Oil croud doesn’t it.

As an oil man, Bush understands that the USA is never going to attain energy independence, unless the Persian Gulf states become American colonies. That’s why there’s talk of holding Iraq’s oil revenues in trust for the Iraqi people. Translation: Once we’re in charge, we’ll decide what price Iraq should charge for its oil (cheap), and we’ll buy it all.

While the stated focus is security, Washington’s actual agenda is likely trying to find ways to stop a massive organized effort of intellectual property theft by China .

Yet another case of closing the barn door, after the cows are gone.

…and let’s not talk about the fact that in most cases, the same guys who left the barn doors open, profited from the sale loss of cows.

It took roughly 70 years to ruin radio, (degradation/erasure of the commons and complete commercialization), it took about 30 years to ruin Television in the same manner, and it has taken only ten years to ruin the internet, again defined by the same measures.

It has been the short-sightedness of those whose only interests are commercial exploitation of our commons, including the electro-magnetic spectrum and the internet that has left us vulnerable to commercial and political hacking, and turned what should be life-enhancing technologies into a dangerous wasteland full of spies and pirates.

The head of the United States Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, has said the attacks have resulted in the “greatest transfer of wealth in history.” Hackers have stolen a variety of secrets, including negotiating strategies and schematics for next-generation fighter jets and gas pipeline control systems.

Dontcha just love how the good General projects our too-big-to-jail LIBOR-riddled Banker-Immunization Culture on the Chinese?!?